Famous People Born in 1885

• Blackstone, Harry Sr. (September 27)

  Stage magician with elaborate props, 1910-60

• Bohr, Niels (October 7)

  Danish atomic physicist who won 1922's Nobel Prize

• Campbell, Malcolm (March 11)

  The driver of the land-speed record setting Bluebird

• Lawrence, D.H. (September 11)

  Author of Lady Chatterly's Lover

• Lewis, Sinclair (February 7)

  The author of Babbitt and Elmer Gantry

• Nimitz, Chester W. (February 24)

  Commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet in World War II

• Patton, George S. (November 11)

  Commander of the U.S. Third Army in World War II

• Pound, Ezra (October 30)

  The early-20th-century poet who wrote The Cantos

• Quatermain, Allan

  Hero of the adventure novel King Solomon's Mines

• Truman, Bess (February 13)

  President Harry S. Truman's wife

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